But we already knew that John Prince Park was one of the best.
John Prince Park consists of 726.36 acres (includes 338 lake acres). If you subtract the water, it leaves 388 dry acres.
The County Commission along with our Trio Lake Worth Commission are pushing this park for the Atlanta Braves to bulldoze and occupy 100 acres for a stadium as well as a building to house their players. This means that this billion dollar corporation wants to take (for free) a little over 25.8% of our dry land in our park for private enterprise.
When someone says, "Oh, it's just a little piece of the park," you can tell them it really is a large part. Taking nearly 25.8% of anything is significant. Put it in terms of your paycheck at $1000 a week. That reduction would amount to $258.00 a week less.
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Why don't they take Bryant park.
I can't imagine this ever happening. Not only would this be an environmental nightmare, but the logistics would be God awful hell.
I certainly can and do imagine it will happen. When all the big wigs are meeting out of the sunshine on our dime--they usually get what they want. This upsets me a lot, but unfortunately it's our reality. What I have trouble envisioning is the taxpayers all voting themselves higher taxes to pay for "creative financing" for billionaires. On top of losing one of the most popular parks in the area.
Do not vote for the 1 cent sales tax hike. It won't be going to us, it will be given away to a group of greedy baseball billionaires !
How about some under water ball? I heard the gators want to play them.
Research John Prince! He drained the wetlands to create this park killing numerous wildlife. He was a developer of the old days. Let's not try to rewrite history. He did it for the people. How ironic!
I don't know about that but many areas in Florida were in-filled. In 1972 or around that time, we finally got some permitting processes and an eye on development projects. This park was built way before then in the late 30's.
No one wants our state to be paved over and no one wants this for John Prince Park other than those believing they can make money off the process. certainly is sickening...like a planner perhaps?
I would be interested to know where you obtained this information. This is what I have re the history of JPP:
History of John Prince Park
Originally the John Prince Park was part of an extensive wetland/lake system derived from trapped rainwater on the western slope of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge. With acquisition of the land by the Palm Beach County, the area was earmarked for development as a county park. John Prince Park came into being in the mid 1930s and subsequently the majority of the wetlands were filled with clean filled dredged from Lake Osborne. Some of the remnant wetlands remain, i.e., Custard Apple Slough, but for the most part, the wetlands are gone and the lake shores have long since been demucked and filled. --Source Palm Beach County, Dept. of Environmental Resources.
PARK HISTORY
John Prince was a member of the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners for 18 years. In the 1930s and 1940s, thanks to his efforts, developers and the State donated more than 1,000 acres in Lake Worth for a community park. The park was named in his memory after his death in 1952, and it is believed to be the second oldest County-operated park in Florida. Source: Our Century, Palm Beach Post
To me this shows uncommon foresight and amazing good will to create this public park which survives to the present. (Hopefully) I doubt if any of this would be preserved at all if this did not take place. This was taking place some 80-100 years ago when the area was just taking shape. The lake is natural and any filling of the wetlands was from the lake itself to make the land walkable. Today this area supports a huge and varied amount of wildlife, some of which is threatened and endangered. I don't see this as rewriting history. Please provide your sources.
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